shoeblack

How to use shoeblack in a sentence

• He carefully made détours to escape these, and the shoeblack boys with whom he had been held in high favour.

  A Sheaf of Corn | Mary E. Mann

• Now fight to death for the boy that living you would not have hired as a shoeblack.

  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) | Thomas De Quincey

• "I'm a moral shoeblack," repeated Grif, with an inclination to punch Dirty Bob's head.

  Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

• A shoeblack in the foreground is teaching a poodle to dance; the comical animal's head is decorated with an old peruke.

  Rowlandson the Caricaturist. First Volume | Joseph Grego

• Such an event as a shoeblack in South Audley Street was not to be passed by.

  Ravenshoe | Henry Kingsley